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Of April 20, 1889, hitler was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria. He was from a from a poor peasant family.In order to pursue a career in art, as this was his best subject at school.
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His father died in 1903 after suffering a pleural hemorrhage. Hitler himself suffered from lung infections, and he quit school at the age of 16, because of ill health and the result of poor school work.
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Klara Hitler dies from breast cancer and Adolf is overcome with grief.
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At the age of 17, Hitler moves to Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He plans to attend art school there but when he is rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for the second time in October, he gives up on his dream.In order to pursue a career in art, as this was his best subject at school. His test drawings were judged unsatisfactory and was not admitted. Hitler was badly shaken by this rejection
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Hitler runs out of money and moves into a homeless shelter in Vienna. There He becomes friends with another resident, Reinhold Hanish, who suggests the two can make money by selling Hitler's paintings.
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He ignored his army orders in 1909 because of his hate for Austria and later being rejected by the Austrian army for being too weak, then he volunteered for germany.Then hitler was accepted.
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Adolf Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, a decoration rarely given to a corporal
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released from hospital on this day
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In Munich, Hitler convinces the German army that he is against socialism and avoids arrest. He helps the army find other soldiers who did support socialism and he is recruited to be a political officer.
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Hitler wins an election and becomes the leader of new political party, nicknamed Nazi. The party's official name is National Socialist German Workers Party and it believes that equality is only for Germans, not Jews or immigrants.
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The Nazis unsuccessfully try to take over the German government and Hitler is sentenced to prison for five years for treason. While there, he dictates his autobiography and book of political ideas
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The Nazis, led by Hitler, begin to eliminate Jews from Eastern Europe. At least six million Jews will be killed, many in brutal concentration camps, before the Holocaust ends in 1945.
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After being named chancellor of Germany in 1933, a presidential election is held in 1934 that Hitler easily wins, partially because he vows to fight communism. He is now firmly in power as dictator of Germany with the title of Fuhrer.
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Hitler holds a secret meeting with his top military advisors, ordering them to make plans for the conquest of Eastern Europe and Russia.
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Hitler’s important adoption of General Erich von Manstein’s plan for an attack through the Ardennes (which began May 10) instead of farther north. This was a brilliant and startling success. The German armies reached the Channel ports (which they had been unable to reach during World War I) in 10 days.
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Hitler declares war against the U.S. Germany had no agreement with Japan, but Hitler likes the fact that he is now the center of World War II, the biggest war.
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He escapes serious injury when a bomb explodes at his headquarters in Berlin. It is the third assassination attempt against Hitler. A senior officer is blamed for planting the bomb.
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he decides that since Germany has lost the war, the country does not deserve to survive. He orders the destruction of the railroads, highways, and other important features of German industry, but the order is not obeyed.
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Probably trying to avoid being captured by Soviet troops, Hitler kills himself. He commits suicide by shooting himself in the head while biting down on a poisonous cyanide capsule.
